IAEA Deputy Visiting Tehran Excludes Nuclear Facility Inspections

Deputy head of the International Atomic Energy Agency will travel to Tehran Monday to revive strained ties, but no inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities are planned. The trip marks the first IAEA visit since Israel and Iran’s 12-day war in June, during which some of Iran’s key nuclear sites were struck. On July 3, President Masoud Pezeshkian suspended cooperation with the agency after American and Israeli airstrikes on its most important nuclear facilities, further limiting inspectors’ ability to track uranium enrichment near weapons-grade levels. In that conflict, U.S. forces bombed three major Iranian nuclear sites, killing nearly 1,100 people in Iran, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, and 28 in Israel.